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UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE NELSON PEOK, OF WILMINGTON, NEw Yo icY p ,1 i 1 ROAD-SGRAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,704, dated January 3, 1860.3 5 1 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NELsoN PEoK, of l Vilmington, in the county of Essex and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Road Scraper; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in whichi Figure 1, is a back view of my invention in elevation. Fig. 2, is a side sectional view of ditto, taken in the line w, at, Fig. l. i

Similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in the two figures.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the operation of the machine as regards the depositing or leaving of the load and also to lessen the draft so that the work usually performed by scrapers may be executed with greater facility and with less labor, favoring both the operator or attendant and the draft animals.

The invention consists in having the scraper mounted on wheels and arranged in such a way that it may be raised and lowered so as to be rendered operative and inoperative when desired as hereinafter fully described To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct .my invention I will proceed to describe it.

A, is a head or stock to the upper part of which at its center a draft B, is attached. This head or stock may be constructed of a cast metal plate of a requisite length and height or, heavy plank may be used shod with metal at its lower part to form a sort of scoops C, as shown clearly in Fig. 2.. If the head or stock be of cast metal it and the scoop, might be cast in one piece. The draft pole B, may be braced from the head or stock A, in any proper way.

To the back side of the head or stock A, two arms or leversD, D, are attached by fulcrum pinsa, a. To the outer end of each lever D, a wheel E, is attached and the inner ends of the arms or levers are connected by rods 6, b, to a bar F, the front end of which is secured by a joint 0, to an upright on the t 1 916 :B. backparo the bar F, works; in aAig id G h attached to the top of the,head;or t k A;

This guide has aprojection d, at one of its inner sides said projection forming recesses e, 6, one at the .upperandtheotherqat the lower part of the guide. Gggas shown clearly in Fig. 1. Within, the guideiG, aspring 7', is placed said spring having atendencyto keep the bar E, in .eitherfrecess eg When the device is notinloperatiomkthat is to say, not scrapingthe earth in frontof;

it, the bar F, has its back end in the upper recess 0, of the guide G, as shown inblack in both figures. W'hen thebar;F,is i11: this I position, the head or stocklA, is elevated.

above the earth themachine being supported. by the wheels E, WVhenithe ibar its back end in the lowerrecess e, the,scoop C, rests on the earth as shown in frjed and as the machine is drawn along the earth will be scraped up in frontjofuthe scoo In order to deposit the loadinwfrontfofthe scoop, the operator, whorwalks behind H machine, simplyelevates the back end ofitheigl bar F, into the. upper notch efand the scoop:

passes over the loadq Thefiinplement islthen; turned, while: resting on tits ;whejels, an drawn back tot-he properstartingplace fo a succeeding scraping operationor, if neces sary to followomthe bar F,isfreedat once from the upper recessfe, and; allowedtoxdc scend to the lower ;.one,sothat5the: scoop may be brought in contact; with the earth as before.

From the abovedescriptioli i that the operator bygsimply ladjustinglnthe bar F, can render themachineloperativeja inoperative and dischargelits loadlwith ith greatest facility. .This .is icomparatively easy work for the operator,ifar.more so than;

turning the device overas isfnecessaryiwithf the ordinary scraperfin order :to dumpor discharge the load: The wheelsl E, also greatly facilitate the transportiong orldraws ing of the machine fromplacef to plafcefand in adjusting it to its work. The improve ment will not greatly augment the.cost,;th advantage derived rendering the expense in appreciable. p

Having thus described my invention What lowering of the head or stock for the pur- I claim as new and desire to secure by Letpose herein set forth.

ters Patent, ishis Attaching the Wheels E, E, to the head or i PECK' 5 stock A, to which the scoop G, is secured, Wit I substantially as shown, so that the same DOUGLAS COMING may be adjusted to admit. of the raising and V GARDNER P 

